xen/arm: Zero BSS after the MMU and D-cache is turned on

At the moment BSS is zeroed before the MMU and D-Cache is turned on.
In other words, the cache will be bypassed when zeroing the BSS section.

On Arm64, per the Image protocol [1], the state of the cache for BSS region
is not known because it is not part of the "loaded kernel image".

On Arm32, the boot protocol [2] does not mention anything about the
state of the cache. Therefore, it should be assumed that it is not known
for BSS region.

This means that the cache will need to be invalidated twice for the BSS
region:
    1) Before zeroing to remove any dirty cache line. Otherwise they may
    get evicted while zeroing and therefore overriding the value.
    2) After zeroing to remove any cache line that may have been
    speculated. Otherwise when turning on MMU and D-Cache, the CPU may
    see old values.

At the moment, the only reason to have BSS zeroed early is because the
boot page tables are part of it. To avoid the two cache invalidations,
it would be better if the boot page tables are part of the "loaded
kernel image" and therefore be zeroed when loading the image into
memory. A good candidate is the section .data.page_aligned.

A new macro DEFINE_BOOT_PAGE_TABLE is introduced to create and mark
page-tables used before BSS is zeroed. This includes all boot_* but also
xen_fixmap as zero_bss() will print a message when earlyprintk is
enabled.

[1] linux/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
[2] linux/Documentation/arm/Booting

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
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Julien Grall committed 2019-09-17 17:46:03 +01:00
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@@ -149,7 +149,6 @@ past_zImage:
mov r12, #0 /* r12 := is_secondary_cpu */
bl check_cpu_mode
bl zero_bss
bl cpu_init
bl create_page_tables
bl enable_mmu
@@ -163,6 +162,7 @@ primary_switched:
/* Use a virtual address to access the UART. */
mov_w r11, EARLY_UART_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS
#endif
bl zero_bss
PRINT("- Ready -\r\n")
/* Setup the arguments for start_xen and jump to C world */
mov r0, r10 /* r0 := Physical offset */
@@ -273,17 +273,12 @@ ENDPROC(check_cpu_mode)
/*
* Zero BSS
*
* Inputs:
* r10: Physical offset
*
* Clobbers r0 - r3
*/
zero_bss:
PRINT("- Zero BSS -\r\n")
ldr r0, =__bss_start /* Load start & end of bss */
ldr r1, =__bss_end
add r0, r0, r10 /* Apply physical offset */
add r1, r1, r10
ldr r0, =__bss_start /* r0 := vaddr(__bss_start) */
ldr r1, =__bss_end /* r1 := vaddr(__bss_start) */
mov r2, #0
1: str r2, [r0], #4
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@@ -304,7 +304,6 @@ real_start_efi:
mov x22, #0 /* x22 := is_secondary_cpu */
bl check_cpu_mode
bl zero_bss
bl cpu_init
bl create_page_tables
bl enable_mmu
@@ -318,6 +317,7 @@ primary_switched:
/* Use a virtual address to access the UART. */
ldr x23, =EARLY_UART_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS
#endif
bl zero_bss
PRINT("- Ready -\r\n")
/* Setup the arguments for start_xen and jump to C world */
mov x0, x20 /* x0 := Physical offset */
@@ -420,7 +420,6 @@ ENDPROC(check_cpu_mode)
* Zero BSS
*
* Inputs:
* x20: Physical offset
* x26: Do we need to zero BSS?
*
* Clobbers x0 - x3
@@ -430,8 +429,8 @@ zero_bss:
cbnz x26, skip_bss
PRINT("- Zero BSS -\r\n")
load_paddr x0, __bss_start /* Load paddr of start & end of bss */
load_paddr x1, __bss_end
ldr x0, =__bss_start /* x0 := vaddr(__bss_start) */
ldr x1, =__bss_end /* x1 := vaddr(__bss_start) */
1: str xzr, [x0], #8
cmp x0, x1
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@@ -62,6 +62,17 @@ mm_printk(const char *fmt, ...) {}
} while (0);
#endif
/*
* Macros to define page-tables:
* - DEFINE_BOOT_PAGE_TABLE is used to define page-table that are used
* in assembly code before BSS is zeroed.
* - DEFINE_PAGE_TABLE{,S} are used to define one or multiple
* page-tables to be used after BSS is zeroed (typically they are only used
* in C).
*/
#define DEFINE_BOOT_PAGE_TABLE(name) \
lpae_t __aligned(PAGE_SIZE) __section(".data.page_aligned") name[LPAE_ENTRIES]
#define DEFINE_PAGE_TABLES(name, nr) \
lpae_t __aligned(PAGE_SIZE) name[LPAE_ENTRIES * (nr)]
@@ -90,13 +101,13 @@ lpae_t __aligned(PAGE_SIZE) name[LPAE_ENTRIES * (nr)]
* Finally, if EARLY_PRINTK is enabled then xen_fixmap will be mapped
* by the CPU once it has moved off the 1:1 mapping.
*/
DEFINE_PAGE_TABLE(boot_pgtable);
DEFINE_BOOT_PAGE_TABLE(boot_pgtable);
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_64
DEFINE_PAGE_TABLE(boot_first);
DEFINE_PAGE_TABLE(boot_first_id);
DEFINE_BOOT_PAGE_TABLE(boot_first);
DEFINE_BOOT_PAGE_TABLE(boot_first_id);
#endif
DEFINE_PAGE_TABLE(boot_second);
DEFINE_PAGE_TABLE(boot_third);
DEFINE_BOOT_PAGE_TABLE(boot_second);
DEFINE_BOOT_PAGE_TABLE(boot_third);
/* Main runtime page tables */
@@ -149,7 +160,7 @@ static __initdata int xenheap_first_first_slot = -1;
*/
static DEFINE_PAGE_TABLES(xen_second, 2);
/* First level page table used for fixmap */
DEFINE_PAGE_TABLE(xen_fixmap);
DEFINE_BOOT_PAGE_TABLE(xen_fixmap);
/* First level page table used to map Xen itself with the XN bit set
* as appropriate. */
static DEFINE_PAGE_TABLE(xen_xenmap);
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